Carly Fiorina Quotes

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowe's, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'

I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

I would like to have a managerial career as a director.

The goal isn't just to make transactions: it's to make better decisions in the way you run your business. If that's not at the top of every executive's priorities, then they shouldn't be an executive.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

It's stressful when you run a company.